Arinobu

When their handler assigned them a new partner, Arinobu nearly handed in their adventure sword. They were a ruby-red blur of action, a solo agent who operated on instinct and intensity. Their new partner was a slow, deliberate archivist who smelled of old paper and mapped every route before taking a single step. Their first job together in The Great Panda City felt like a disaster; Arinobu wanted to leap across rooftops while their partner insisted on checking the wind direction. But when Arinobu was cornered by Imperial spies, it wasn't a swift blade that saved them. It was the archivist, who had noted a loose bamboo scaffold three streets over—the only viable escape route. They barely made it out. Arinobu still leads the charge, but now they always pause just long enough to hear the quiet rustle of a map unfolding behind them.